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...Scottish Burr. Concern with foreign markets is a hallmark of Caterpillar's recent management. A decade ago the company did no manufacturing overseas; today it has plants in eleven foreign countries. With foreign sales now accounting for 45% of its business, Cat has become the U.S.'s second biggest exporter after General Motors, last year helped shore up the nation's strained balance of payments with $444 million in foreign-earned revenue. The company now manufactures 250 different pieces of heavy-duty equipment, from pipelayers (cost: $96,000) capable of lifting 100 tons to giant scrapers (cost...
...economy, Bill Blackie left his native Scotland for the U.S., where he became an accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago. Since Caterpillar was one of his clients, the urbane Blackie found himself spending plenty of time at the company's headquarters. "Peoria," he recalls with a slight Scottish burr, "was something I'd not quite experienced before." He evidently liked the experience, for in 1939 he quit Price Waterhouse to become Cat's controller. He moved to president in 1962, and last year, when Harmon Eberhard stepped down after four years as Cat's chairman...
More to Come. For MacMillan, the son of a Scottish chicken farmer who danced with the Royal Ballet until switching to choreography at 23 (and who now directs the ballet of the Berlin Opera), Song is an achievement that secures him a place in the front rank of younger choreographers. For the Royal Ballet, the performance was the high point of its first two weeks in New York (the start of a four-month U.S. tour). For New York ballet buffs, it was a sample of more to come. This week Royal Ballet Stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn make...
...radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator in the Scottish tradition who blends content and form in his low-keyed sermons, emphasizing Biblical texts rather than rhetorical flourish...
BRIGADOON (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). A return engagement for that outstanding special, first shown in October: Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, Sally Ann Howes, Edward Villella doing Lerner and Loewe's fairy tale about a Scottish village that comes to life once every century. And may all good programs reappear every 100 days...